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August 2, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the headline: "Hamburg Port Blasted To Ruins: Bombs Rain On Bremen: Leipzig Battered" |
(While Hamburg had been hit, it could in no way be said to have been "blasted to ruins." It would only take a day for the Propaganda Minister to write his own headline mocking the British reports. ) |
Also note the report in column 2: "Graf Spee Officer Arrested" |
(This is probably correct, but the name given in the report does not appear on the list of internees in Argentina.) |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the photo at left: "And Now Where's That---?" |
(Photo showing Prime Minister Winston Churchill holding a Thompson Sub-Machine Gun. The Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, would use this photo to brand Churchill a gangster.) |
Also note the report in column 5: "Troops Have Ration of Tobacco" |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 3-4: "Duke And Duchess Of Windsor Travel Incognito" |
(I wonder if the definition of "incognito" has drastically changed since 1940. My understanding is that the word means; concealed, hidden, undercover, camouflaged, unidentified, secret, anonymous and so on. Yet yesterday there were reports on the front pages which identified who they were, what assumed name they were using, what ship they were sailing on, what port they were departing from, what time they were departing and what their destination was. Over the next few days, the press would follow the former King's voyage making the definition of the word "incognito" unrecognizable as a word in the English language. While I realize that the former King was not exactly the most favorite royal in England, painting a target on him by providing all these details to the Germans put his life in danger. The Germans did read the British and American press daily and they were well aware of the former King's movements. Oddly I did not find any mention of this in the war diary of the German naval high command or in the war diary of the U-boat arm. All German warships were under orders not to attack American ships, but accidents happen, an example being the the close call of the SS Washington. I expected to find mention of some kind of warning being sent to all ships, U-boats and aircraft to be especially careful not to sink this ship. In fact, the ship carrying the Duke and Duchess, Excalibur, would later be sunk by a U-boat. The ship was acquired by the U.S. Navy on Jan. 8, 1942, converted into a transport and renamed USS Joseph Hewes APA-22. On Nov. 11, 1942 U-173 sank the ship off Casablanca, Morocco. At least 100 people were killed.) |
| [Also see "American Skipper and Ship Carrying the Windsors" in the Biddeford Daily Journal of Aug. 3, 1940.] |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the headline: "Gen. Charles De Gaulle Is Condemned To Die By French" |
Also note the report in column 1: "81 Face Ejection From Canal" |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 3: "81 Foreign Agents Held In Canal Zone Prove to Be Refugees" |
(An error in the transmission caused the word aliens to be misunderstood as agents. It is kind of refreshing to see a government agency admitting a mistake was made, something that is almost never done today.) |
Also note the report in columns 2-4: "Nazi, Prisoner of War, Praises Fair Play After Escape to U.S. From British Ship" |
(Walther-Kurt Reich was a crewman from U-63.) |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "U.S. Liner Brings Windsors Across Atlantic" |
(More front page news about the "incognito" voyage of the Duke of Windsor.) |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of The Salt Lake City Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Der Bombenwurs in Hannovers Altstadt. |
(The bombshell in Hanover's old town.) |
2. Judenfrage im Gouvernement gelöst. |
(Jewish question resolved in the government.) |
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August 2, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Jugoslawien - letztes Asyl für britische hetzagenten? |
(Yugoslavia - last asylum for British agitation agents.) |
2. Systematische Wühlarbeit Englands gegen die Achse und den Adriafrieden. |
(Systematic work by England against the Axis and the Adriatic Peace.) |
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Page published August 2, 2021 |
